August 28, 1913. 



The Florists' Review 



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Greenhouse and Electric Power Plant of Heiol & Weber, Terre Haute. 



brush, a piece of cotton-wool tied on a 

 stick, or a rabbit's tail, and impregnate 

 them early in the afternoon each day. 

 If you do this you are sure of a heavy 

 set and will have to thin your fruits 

 severely. 



It will not be safe to leave any of 

 your plants outdoors over winter. No 

 matter how well mulched, they would 

 get too wet at the root and would suffer 

 great injury. Store them in a shed or 

 cellar which is not too dark. Never 

 mind if the temperature falls 10 to 15 

 degrees below freezing occasionally, so 

 long as you have plenty of straw or hay 

 about the pots. Also be careful not to 

 let the plants become dry during the 

 winter, or you will lose about all your 

 fruit buds; quite a few growers have 

 found this out to their sorrow. Pot- 

 fruit culture is interesting, is not diffi- 

 cult and seems to be growing in favor. 



C. W. 



A NOVEL POWER PLANT. 



Brains that bring success in the flo- 

 rists' business can be profitably applied 

 to other lines of work; so thought Heinl 

 & Weber, of Terre Haute, Ind., and they 

 went to work to apply them. They 

 found that in building new houses the 

 old-fashioned way of drilling holes in 

 cast-iron gutters was back-breaking 

 work and too hard for ingenious florists. 

 So they set to work to let their heads 

 save their heels, or rather their backs, 

 and got an electric drill. They found, 

 however, that the electric power to run 

 the drill was not at hand and hard to 

 procure. The solution to this was their 

 electric automobile, which was fully 

 charged and run up back of the green- 

 houses. Upon connecting up the auto- 

 mobile and the drill as shown in the 

 illustration, Messrs. Heinl & Weber 

 found everything running smoothly, and 

 with their unique power plant can now 

 drill 300 holes a day. 



ANOTHER PRIZE-WINNING CAR. 



Florists are making use of their dec- 

 orative genius to gain fame as well as 

 profits, and are picking up first prizes 

 right and left for unique and good- 

 looking floral floats. Another winner to 

 be noted is Chas. A. Simonson, of Mc- 

 Pherson, Kan., who took first place in 

 the parade July 4, with the car shown 

 in the illustration. This scarcely does 

 it justice, as there was almost a gale 

 blowing when the photograph was 

 taken. 



The car was loaned by a local garage 

 in return for the display of its card, 

 which hung from the running-boar^. 

 The surface was covered with floral 



sheeting and the trimmings were of 

 natural roses and carnations. Baskets 

 of roses were placed on each running- 

 board and on the hood. Not easily 

 distinguishable in the illustration, the 

 name of the decorator was on each side, 

 made of chenille. Mr. Simonson is 

 shown at the wheel and his wife and 

 daughter in the back seat of the car. 



LANCASTER, PA. 



The Market. 



There has been little change in this 

 market since the last writing. Outdoor 

 flowers of all kinds are everywhere seen. 

 The weather has been so extremely hot 

 the last few weeks that asters and gla- 

 dioli are the only flowers that can be 

 recommended to give satisfaction. 

 These two, however, are arriving in 

 good shape and in large quantities. The 

 demand for roses is not heavy, and 

 when one gets a rose order he has to 

 go some to get stock that is up to the 

 mark. 



Florists' Club Meeting. 



Thursday night, August 21, was aster 

 night at the Lancaster County Florists' 

 Club meeting, held in the Chamber of 

 Commerce rooms. The exhibition table 

 was covered with vases of beautiful 

 asters in all their many wonderful 

 shades. Walter R. Denlinger, of Vin- 



tage, showed vases of Vick's Early 

 Branching, in white and rose, and 

 Vick's Royal Purple that deserved a 

 medal for culture. B. F. Barr staged 

 vases of Vick's Violet King, Imperial 

 Giant Purity and German rose pink, all 

 high quality blooms. John R. Shreiner, 

 of Greenland, showed a vase of Crego 

 asters which for size and variety of 

 tints were unsurpassed. 



An interesting discussion followed, 

 and varieties and general culture were 

 thoroughly discussed. The worst enemy 

 of the aster grotrers is the black beetle 

 that appears about the time the flowers 

 show color, and in a few days can ruin 

 acres of blooms. 



An invitation was received for all 

 the members to attend the field day 

 inspection of Henry F. Michell's flower 

 farm at Andalusia, Pa., north of Phila- 

 delphia, August 27. The meeting was 

 attended by some thirty-five members. 

 Edward Reid, of Philadelphia, gave a 

 valuable talk to the florists on the 

 careful grading and packing of cut 

 flowers of all kinds; he stated that a 

 grower should make it a point to have 

 regular days for shipping his stock and 

 in this way the commission man could 

 book orders in advance to good advan- 

 tage. 



President A. M. Herr appointed B. F. 

 Barr, H. K. Rohrer and C. F. Edgar to 

 arrange resolutions on the death of 

 Francis Bachler. 



Various Notes. 



George Goldbach is cutting some 

 good Golden Glow chrysanthemums. 



B. F. Barr & Co. have been making a 

 specialty of a dollar basket of flowers, 

 and they find this line has brought 

 better results than the dollar box this 

 season, as a larger amount of short- 

 stemmed stock can be worked up to 

 good advantage. 



Miss Katherine E. Seibert, of B. F. 

 Barr & Co., has returned from a four 

 weeks' vacation trip in the south. 



Visitors last week were George 

 Auegle, manager of the Philadelphia 

 Cut Flower Co.; A. T. Clough, for 

 James H. Matthews & Co., Pittsburgh, 

 Pa.; Mr. Cohen, for Wertheimer Bros., 

 New York, and H. C. Yeager, Norris- 

 town. Pa. C. F. E. 



Chas. A. Simonson in His Prize-'Winning Car. 



